Specialty S&M
October 1980
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Issue Details
- Volume
- 6
- Issue
- 6
- PDF pages
- 223
Summary
This October 1980 special temporary extra issue of Specialty S&M is an overwhelmingly photographic publication organized around staged bondage, restraint, corporal torment, humiliation, and eroticized endurance. The cover identifies it as Special Temporary Extra Issue No. 6, while the interior also labels it the third 1980 collection. A formal contents spread near the front divides the publication into an opening illustrated feature, a long color-photo sequence, a later monochrome photo gallery, a reader-submitted secret-photo section, and an overseas S&M report.
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Table of Contents 26 items
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Secret Diagrams of Sensual Pleasure and Shame
Summary
An illustration feature presenting a sequence of stylized erotic bondage scenes, including rope restraint, suspension, contorted poses, and partnered encounters. The images emphasize sensual pleasure, vulnerability, and the theatrical visual language of Japanese S&M.
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Reflections on Female Seppuku
Summary
An illustrated essay examining female seppuku in Japanese history and literature, contrasting women’s methods, circumstances, and symbolic meanings with male samurai suicide. The accompanying staged photographs dramatize ritualized self-disembowelment and related acts of surrender, violence, and death.
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Color Photo Record: Kue, the Married Woman Who Longs for Abuse
Summary
A color photographic feature portraying Kue, a married woman described as longing for abuse, in staged scenes of nudity, bondage, restraint, and physical domination. The images emphasize ritualized sadomasochistic performance and the visual dynamics of captivity.
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Agony of Breast Crushing
Summary
A photographic sadomasochistic feature depicting a woman restrained while her breasts are compressed between wooden boards and subjected to escalating physical pressure. The images emphasize staged bondage, bodily distress, and endurance within an erotic torture setting.
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Suspended by All Four Limbs and Scorched by Candle
Summary
A photographic feature showing a woman bound and suspended or positioned with all four limbs restrained while attendants apply candle heat to her body. The sequence presents staged BDSM torment through immobilization, exposure, and controlled sensation.
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Prelude to a Young Wife's Lustful Indulgence
Summary
A photographic feature depicting a young wife restrained with rope in outdoor and traditional domestic settings, progressing through posed scenes of bondage and physical submission.
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Candle Stand of Inverted Suspension with Legs Spread
Summary
A photographic sequence centered on inverted suspension with the subject’s limbs spread and secured by rope, incorporating candlelight and staged ritualistic imagery.
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After a 2,000 cc Enema by Irrigator
Summary
A photographic feature depicting a woman restrained in a chair during and after an enema administered with an irrigator, emphasizing physical discomfort and endurance.
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Agony of a Forced Bent Posture
Summary
A photographic feature showing a woman bound into forced bent and contorted postures, with restraints applied to her limbs and body and imagery emphasizing pain, helplessness, and submission.
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Invitation to a Trance-like Dream Realm
Summary
A photographic feature presenting a woman in staged, dreamlike scenes of bondage, blindfolding, and rope restraint. The sequence uses theatrical poses, unusual angles, and dark interiors to evoke a trance-like or surreal erotic realm.
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Outdoor Training
Summary
A photographic feature depicting outdoor and indoor BDSM training scenarios, with women restrained, bound, blindfolded, and posed in rustic or domestic settings. The sequence emphasizes rope bondage, physical control, and staged disciplinary tableaux.
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Return Feast of Masochistic Pleasure with Mrs. Akiko Honma
Summary
A photographic feature centered on Mrs. Akiko Honma in staged scenes of masochistic bondage and submission. The images show elaborate black-and-white rope arrangements, bound poses, and apparent group participation in a ritualized feast setting.
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First Technique Session with Mrs. Shizue Takada
Summary
A photographic feature documenting Mrs. Shizue Takada undergoing an introductory bondage and restraint session. The sequence shows rope binding, blindfolding, gagging, immobilization, and supervised positioning in a staged S&M setting.
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Bondage Passion Photo Gallery: Honeyed Banquet
Summary
A photographic bondage feature depicting a woman in staged rope restraints, blindfolds, gags, and restrictive positions, with several scenes involving assisting or observing partners. The sequence emphasizes elaborate physical restraint, erotic power exchange, and dramatic black-and-white presentation.
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Michiko's Thousand and One Nights of Loving Abuse
Summary
A photographic feature devoted to Michiko and her partner, presenting a sequence of staged sadomasochistic scenes involving bondage, restraint, masks, blindfolds, and controlled power exchange in domestic settings. The accompanying Japanese text frames the images as an intimate portrait of devotion, discipline, and erotic role-play.
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Secret Record of a Young Wife's Training
Summary
A photographic feature depicting a young wife undergoing a staged BDSM training regimen involving blindfolding, restraint, forced postures, and controlled physical examination. The sequence emphasizes ritualized discipline, vulnerability, and the documentation of submission.
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Woman Tomi: Women's Sumo
Summary
A photographic feature on women’s sumo, showing female performers in loincloth-style attire adopting sumo stances and engaging in staged wrestling demonstrations. The imagery combines traditional sumo motifs with theatrical female athletic performance.
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Long-Cherished Wish for Tight Binding
Summary
A photographic feature documenting rope-bondage scenes involving a bound woman and partner, including floor and suspended restraint positions. Captions emphasize the woman’s physical responses and the use of rope as an erotic medium.
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Scenes of Tormenting Three Enslaved Women
Summary
A photographic feature depicting three women subjected to elaborate bondage, restraint, suspension, gagging, and staged sadomasochistic torment in indoor and outdoor settings. Captions frame the sequence as a group domination scenario involving multiple participants and varied restraint tableaux.
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Portraits of Beautiful Women in Loving Abuse
Summary
A photographic feature presenting staged portraits of women in erotic bondage and restrained poses, including rope ties, blindfolding, and suspension-oriented imagery. The series emphasizes stylized composition, vulnerability, and consensual-looking power-play scenarios rather than a narrative or instructional text.
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Crotch Torment
Summary
A photographic BDSM feature depicting a woman subjected to elaborate rope bondage, restraint, and crotch-focused teasing or torment. The staged sequence emphasizes immobilized poses, physical vulnerability, and the participation of unseen or partially visible partners using hands and props.
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Elegy
Summary
A photographic feature centered on “Nozomi,” identified in the accompanying Japanese text as 17, depicted in a sequence of staged bondage and coercive sexual-assault scenarios. The images show rope restraint, gagging, forced positioning, and distress-oriented posing in lingerie.
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Shame and Punishment Photo Feature
Summary
A photographic S&M feature depicting a woman posed in scenes of restraint, exposure, and ritualized punishment, including bindings, crawling postures, and outdoor settings. The sequence emphasizes visualized shame and submissive humiliation through stylized erotic photography.
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Sweet Play Tied to Trees
Summary
A photographic bondage feature depicting a woman restrained with cloth and rope against trees in the Aokigahara forest. The sequence emphasizes elaborate outdoor tying, immobilized poses, and the visual staging of consensual-looking BDSM play.
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Reader-Submitted Secret Photo Special
Summary
A reader-submitted photographic feature presenting staged S&M scenes involving adult models in elaborate bondage, gagging, restraint, and dominant/submissive poses. The images emphasize posed bodily display, rope and clothing restraints, and intimate domestic settings.
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Overseas Correspondent Report: S&M Play Information, America Part 5
Summary
A photographic report on S&M play in America, presenting staged scenes of women in rope bondage, leather restraints, gags, harnesses, and other forms of immobilization. The feature emphasizes the visual and practical variety of bondage arrangements in outdoor and domestic settings.
Highlights
- The opening illustrated feature by Yamaguchi Tsubaki presents a sustained series of stylized female bondage poses, establishing the issue's visual emphasis before the photographic sections begin. (PDF pp. 6–13).
- Kurosaki Sensui's Reflections on Female Seppuku combines text and staged photography around a ritualized cutting fantasy, standing apart from the rope-centered material that dominates most of the issue. (PDF pp. 14–18).
- The principal color-photo section unfolds as a long sequence of distinct S&M scenarios involving restraint, suspension, candle torment, forced posture, enemas, outdoor bondage, and photographed sessions with named participants. (PDF pp. 19–66).
- The black-and-white feature Michiko's Thousand and One Nights of Loving Abuse presents a sustained photographic scenario of bondage, writing on the body, and domination rather than isolated glamour photographs. (PDF pp. 86–93).
- Secret Record of a Young Wife's Training develops a staged domestic training scenario using blindfolding, binding, restraint, and bodily positioning. (PDF pp. 94–100).
- Scenes of Tormenting Three Enslaved Women expands the issue's photographic format to multiple subjects and varied indoor and outdoor restraint situations. (PDF pp. 107–138).
- The Reader-Submitted Secret Photo Special occupies a substantial late section and foregrounds privately produced and amateur S&M photography, making reader participation part of the issue's editorial structure. (PDF pp. 175–212).
- The concluding Overseas S&M Play Information: America installment introduces foreign bondage photographs and commentary, extending the magazine's visual field beyond Japanese contributors and settings. (PDF pp. 213–223).
Contributors
Named contributors represented in this issue:


